View source for Somerset v MK (2015) EWCOP B1, (2015) MHLO 131

"In the light of all of this it seems to me that this is plainly a case where the usual order for costs should be departed from to the extent that the Local Authority should pay the costs of all of the other parties involved. The other matter that I should deal with is whether those payments should be on an indemnity basis. ... I am very conscious of the impact of such an order. However, in that same case of [[G v E (2010) EWHC 3385 (Fam)]] Mr Justice Baker considered that the local authority's conduct amounted to 'a significant degree of unreasonableness' giving rise to a liability for costs on an indemnity basis. If one reads my judgment in full it is clear that that there was in this case as well a significant degree of unreasonableness both in the Local Authority's approach to the substantive and procedural issues in the case. In those circumstances it seems to me that the argument for indemnity costs is an overwhelming one in this case and that is the order that I intend to make here."

==Related judgments==
{{related judgments|Somerset v MK (2014) EWCOP B25, (2014) MHLO 146}}

==External link==
{{#bailii:(2015) EWCOP B1}}

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